History Main / TrippyFinaleSyndrome

* ''Film/EnterTheVoid'' (although, most of the film is trippy).

* ''PhantasyStarIV'' features an ethereal crystal world inhabited by a disembodied voice named Le Roof who arms you before sending you off to a huge hole in the ground, where you enter a twisty-backgrounded epileptic-rainbow maze to fight the personification of evil. PS Online does a shorter version by having you arrive in a [[MoodWhiplash flower-filled field]] that quickly turns into a desolate wasteland when the BigBad arrives.

* ''MermaidMelodyPichiPichiPitch'' has its final battle in Michel's realm, which appears to be the dream of a drugged-up EvilutionaryBiologist: the pillars in the sky are DNA strands, fish are flying, and everything has wings grafted onto it. [[spoiler:There ''is'' evil genetic engineering involved, but Michel, being a DiscOneFinalBoss, is not aware of this.]]

[[caption-width-right:350:"My God, it's full of stars!"]]]]

[[caption-width-right:350:No wonder the film is called [[{{Tagline}} "the Ultimate Trip!"]]]]

** ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiIVApocalypse'' has [[spoiler:YHVH's Universe]], a truly massive otherworldly location with space backgrounds and reflective blocky platforms that form an incredibly massive dungeon that dwarfs all of the other dungeons in the ''SMTIV'' duology in sheer size. The final area has you walking through huge doors tens of times taller than you while [[spoiler:the BigBad YHVH insists that you turn back at once if you want His forgiveness, before revealing Himself to be a crowd of heads in a vast expanse of space that are rendered in 3D even during the boss battle with Him in a game where most other enemies use 2D sprites.]]

* ''EternalSonata'' had the Elegy of the Moon zone. In contrast to the bright, colorful, and vibrant zones previously seen, the Elegy of the Moon is a rather... odd zone which is essentially purgatory for the souls lost to the mineral powder.

* ''VideoGame/FearEffect''. It seems normal enough at first, and then suddenly it starts turning into a precursor to EternalDarkness...

* Perhaps the archetypal example: the end of ''Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey'', as astronaut David Bowman goes [[spoiler: to "Jupiter and Beyond the Infinite".]] Do not pretend to understand it.

* ''Film/{{Interstellar}}'' is already the modern equivalent of ''Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey'', so it wouldn't be complete without the trip [[spoiler:inside a black hole where aliens have set up infinite rooms showing Cooper's daughter's room throughout multiple time periods, and then the trip backwards and forwards through time and space as Cooper goes home.]]

[[caption-width-right:350:No wonder the film is called [[Tagline "the Ultimate Trip!"]]]]

[[caption-width-right:350:And this goes on for '''[[UpToEleven nine minutes!]]''']]

[[quoteright:350[[Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey :http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/2001_stargate.jpg]]]]
[[caption-width-right:350:And this goes on for '''[[UpToEleven nine minutes!]]''']]

** The finale to [[FinalFantasyCrystalChronicles Crystal Chronicles]] takes place in the Nest of Memories, an abstract realm that's home to the memory-eating demi-gods Mio and [[FinalBoss Raem.]]

* This is basically a requirement for ''VideoGame/ShadowHearts''. In the first one, set before WorldWarI, the heroes head into ''space'' for the final battle.

* ''EternalSonata'' had the Elegy of the Moon zone. In contrast to the bright, colorful, and vibrant zones previously seen, the Elegy of the Moon is a rather... odd zone which is essentialy purgatory for the souls lost to the mineral powder.

* ''BatenKaitos: Origins'': The final boss is pretty standard, but if you [[spoiler:went back in time and killed Wiseman on the Battlefield of Atria, then Wiseman's spirit shows up, assimilates Verus and the afterlings in the core, and turns into a monstrous demon in a starscape. Then, the rest of Malpercio shows up to help you defeat Verus-Wiseman.]] Then, afterwards, you're back in Tarazed Core, like all ''that'' never happened. Granted, it ''does'' make for a hell of a boss fight.

* The final part of ''LandsOfLore 2'' involves Luther entering the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBt3lef-yZk Chamber of Voices]] in the Huline Temple, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vD4C8LA0_24 there raising the city of the ancient gods]] and travelling [[WombLevel through Belial's mother beast to the rebirth chamber]].

* The manga version of ''ChronoCrusade'' takes the heroes to the demon world Pandaemonium for their final battles against [[BigBad Aion]]. [[spoiler:Pandaemonium is really a CoolStarship]], so it's filled with demon technology that's completely anachronistic for the setting, architecture that's obsessed with hexagons, demons who've had [[spoiler:their legion corrupted, driving them feral and making them look like mutant starfish]] and Pandaemonium herself, the demon's HiveQueen.

* ''{{BIONICLE}}'': The first seven chapters of ''Brothers In Arms'' focus entirely on Mazeka and Vultraz. Once the two finally meet in battle, they fly through [[DeusExMachina a portal that randomly opens in front of them]], sending them to an alternate reality where Spherus Magna was never destroyed and the Matoran Universe was never created. [[ShaggyDogStory The conflict between the two is never resolved]], [[WriterCopOut due to this]].

* ''Series/LegendOfTheSeeker'', the television adaptation of ''SwordOfTruth'', pulled a time travel stunt in the first season finally, then had a rather anticlimactic... grappling sequence for the previously DismantledMacGuffin between Richard and Darken Rahl.

* Film/Interstellar is already the modern equivalent of ''Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey'', so it wouldn't be complete without the trip [[spoiler:inside a black hole where aliens have set up infinite rooms showing Cooper's daughter's room throughout multiple time periods, and then the trip backwards and forwards through time and space as Cooper goes home.]]

* ''Film/Lucy'': as the protagonist (LUCY) transcends [[spoiler:her human existence by unlocking the full capacity of her brain and travelling backwards in time]] we see a reverse time-lapse of the creation of earth, the universe, and everything else from Lucy's point of view.
* ''Film/Ant-Man'' takes us on a trip through the Quantum realm. "...a reality where all concepts of time and space become irrelevant as you shrink for all eternity."

* Film/Interstellar is already the modern equivalent of ''Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey'', so it wouldn't be complete without the trip [[spoiler:inside a black hole where aliens have set up infinite rooms showing Cooper's daughter's room throughout multiple time periods, and then the trip backwards and forwards through time and space as Cooper goes home.

* Film/Lucy: as the protagonist (LUCY) transcends [[spoiler:her human existence by unlocking the full capacity of her brain and travelling backwards in time]] we see a reverse time-lapse of the creation of earth, the universe, and everything else from Lucy's point of view.
* Film/Ant-Man takes us on a trip through the Quantum realm. "...a reality where all concepts of time and space become irrelevant as you shrink for all eternity."

%%* ''Film/TheTreeOfLife''
%%* ''Film/EnterTheVoid''

* ''{{Solatorobo}}'''s true final boss fight takes place [[spoiler:inside Tartaros]], which is full of floating squares in various shades of pink or purple.

* This is basically a requirement for ''ShadowHearts''. In the first one, set before WorldWarI, the heroes head into ''space'' for the final battle.

* The final battle of ''OutlawStar'' borders on an action-packed MindScrew, what with BigBad Hazanko and protagonist Gene Starwind apparently merging with their ships to fight each other both physically and in CyberSpace. Of course, the final few episodes are made up of the characters basically running around inside what amounts to God, so all this isn't coming completely out of left field.

* ''Series/BattlestarGalactica'' was infamous for its DistantFinale that attracted as much anger as ''Series/ThePrisoner''.

* ''LegendOfTheSeeker'', the television adaptation of ''SwordOfTruth'', pulled a time travel stunt in the first season finally, then had a rather anticlimactic... grappling sequence for the previously DismantledMacGuffin between Richard and Darken Rahl.

** Somewhat justified in that the movie takes a manga that ran for 8 years and tries to cram it all into a 2 hour long movie. Read the manga if you want the whole story.
*** In fact, the manga's run was only halfway when the movie was made.